When will the great American job creation machine kick into high gear?

By Money Matters Editors

Economists, market analysts, and public policy professionals are hinting at data that will show an end to the U.S. recession sometime in Q3/Q4, if a recession bottom hasn’t already occurred yet.

But the real end to the recession - at least in terms of aggregate demand and the typical person’s daily life - concerns when the U.S. job market will turnaround. And that begs the obvious question: when can investors and Americans in general count on an end to the large job losses that have characterized this pronounced recession?